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The new Canada Post Vancouver Asahi stamp booklet. The pack of 10 stamps comes in a booklet on top of a map of Vancouver's Powell Street area and an Asahi game ticket. Photo credit: Canada Post.
Canada Post has released a new stamp that honours the Vancouver Asahi, the Japanese Canadian baseball...

George Takei and Daniel Enjo, VJLS-JH Community Relations Committee. Photo credits: VJLS-JH.
The second season takes place in a Japanese American internment camp, and Takei is both an actor and consultant on set. As a survivor of Japanese American internment as a young boy, Takei is an advocate...

Nikkei communities worldwide collaborate for youth survey
The participating areas are Hawaii, Los Angeles, Canada, Brazil, Peru, Paraguay, Australia, Japan, the Philippines, United Kingdom, and the Netherlands.
Linda Kawamoto Reid, from the Nikkei National Museum will be coordinating the survey...

Toronto's four universities will participating in a unique, one-of-a-kind learning festival. Photo credit: CRAM
For one night, Toronto's four universities will open their doors and invite the public to access the city's brain power and learn about it's ground-breaking research for a one-of-a-kind...

Still photos from Historica Canada's Heritage Minute on the Vancouver Asahi, which was released on Feb. 20, 2019. Photos courtesy: Historica Canada.
Heritage Minutes are short films, 60 second tidbits of Canada's history, that depict significant moments, events or people in Canadian history. The newest...

Left to right: Gary Kawaguchi, Raymond Moriyama, Consul-General of Japan to Toronto Takako Ito and Frank and Betty Moritsugu. Photo credit: Kelly Fleck
In a ceremony at her official residence, Consul-General of Japan in Toronto Takako Ito conferred the Government of Japan award on Moritsugu. Present...

Pastor Stan Yokota accepted the Pioneer Award for the Japanese Gospel Church in Toronto at Nostalgia Night on July 28.
Many Japanese Canadians found a sense of community and support in the Japanese churches that formed in Toronto after the war. Four of these churches were recognized with the Heritage...

Markham Mayor Frank Scarpitti and Consul-General of Japan Takako Ito along with donors and community members take part in a ceremonial sod-turning at Markham Civic Centre on June 23. Photo credit: Consulate General of Japan.
A total of 80 trees were planted to commemorate the 90th anniversary...